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The Role:
The Product Compliance Specialist will play a key role within our Retail Solution Centre in ensuring that all retailer products, their packaging, labelling, artwork and documentations meet applicable regulatory, environmental, and quality standards.
The role supports the full product approval process, ensuring alignment to critical path timelines through to product launch. Working cross-functionally with clients and suppliers, the specialist will ensure that all aspects of products comply with relevant requirements, providing expert guidance and technical support.
In addition, the role contributes to regulatory insight activities by interpreting and contextualising evolving regulatory requirements, supporting the translation of regulatory developments into clear, actionable guidance to enable proactive compliance across product categories.
Main duties:
Product Compliance & Approval
- To take ownership of the formulated product area of responsibility to meet our business and client needs – covering formulated goods across cosmetics and personal care (health & beauty), air care, household cleaning/detergents and medicines
- Ensuring compliance of product to specific regulatory and retail requirements.
- Product approval process – responsible for meeting Critical Path deadlines through the approval process to launch.
- Review and approve technical specifications and relevant documents.
- Review and approve product artwork, packaging, and labelling to ensure compliance with regional and product specific regulatory and retail requirements.
- Ensure products are legally compliant and fit for purpose.
- Maintain product status on the critical path and keep detailed accurate records of all communications in an orderly fashion.
- Working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for all products critical path and document control.
Regulatory Horizon Scanning & Advisory
- Support regulatory horizon scanning activities to identify relevant legislative developments impacting formulated products and associated consumer goods categories.
- Monitor selected UK, EU, and international regulatory updates, alongside insights provided by the wider Eurofins global regulatory network.
- Review, interpret, and contextualise regulatory changes to ensure relevance and applicability to client product ranges and business operations.
- Translate regulatory intelligence into clear, practical guidance tailored to client and internal team needs.
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of regulatory update reports, ensuring information is accurate, relevant, and actionable.
- Support communication of key regulatory developments through briefings, summaries, and stakeholder discussions.
- Collaborate with Product Compliance, Quality, and global regulatory teams to ensure alignment with current and emerging requirements.
Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration
- Communication to external stakeholders including technical and regulatory guidance, critical path deadlines, product and documentation non-compliances and supplier monitoring.
- Build positive and effective relationships with Quality Assurance, Buying teams and suppliers.
- Attend retailer meetings as and when required either face to face or virtually using teams.
- Support continuous improvement of compliance processes and systems.
- Any other reasonable task requested to support the business.
What We Are Looking For:
- Ideally degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline e.g. toxicology, biochemistry, pharmacy, chemistry.
- Experience in a regulatory role covering formulated products across at least two categories, such as cosmetics/personal care (health & beauty), household cleaning/detergents, air care or medicinal products.
- Strong working knowledge of UK and EU regulatory frameworks, including Cosmetics, Detergents and CLP Regulations, with exposure to medicinal regulatory requirements desirable.
- Experience reviewing and approving packaging, labelling, artwork and technical documentation
- Understanding manufacturing processes and production environments.
- Experience in regulatory horizon scanning, impact assessment, and stakeholder communication is highly desirable.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex regulations into actionable requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proactive, resilient, and positive approach with strong team collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with a “can-do” attitude.
- Ability to travel to client sites across the country (pool car provided)
Benefits: Office based role in Northampton working 37.5 hours - Monday to Friday, Competitive Salary, Life Assurance 4 x salary, Private Medical Insurance, Healthcare Cash Plan, Income Protection, Group Pension Scheme (match contribution of up to 5 %), Option to buy up to 5 days holiday a year, Perkbox (access to discounts), Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support, World-wide career opportunities.